DB-EnginesExtremeDB: the mission critical dbmsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Neo4j vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Neo4j vs. TimescaleDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.18
Rank#351  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#148  Relational DBMS
Score53.51
Rank#20  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#88  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbneo4j.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationlearn.faircomcorp.com/­developers/­documentation_directoryneo4j.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationNeo4j, Inc.Timescale
Initial release197920072017
Current releaseV12, November 20205.5, February 20232.6.0, February 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.
Implementation languageANSI C, C++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningyes using Neo4j Fabricyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACENeo4jTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsAchieve Hundreds of Thousands of Transactions Per Second on A Single Database Server...
» more
Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
» more
Competitive advantagesTop Features SQL Key-value store and navigational NoSQL API Indexed binary objects...
» more
Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
» more
Typical application scenariosReal-time transaction processing solutions leverage FairCom DB because its NoSQL...
» more
Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
» more
Key customersMicrosoft, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, Commvault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
» more
Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
» more
Market metricsFrom banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
» more
Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of FairCom DB are flexible to meet operation requirements,...
» more
GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
» more
News

Unlock the Power of Graph Data Science With AuraDS Enterprise on AWS
20 March 2023

This Week in Neo4j: GPT, NASA, Generative AI, Apache Age, Cypher, Chatbot and More
18 March 2023

This Week in Neo4j: Recommendation, Needle, Microservices, Data Import, Data Analysis, and More
11 March 2023

How to Explore SAP Sample Data in Neo4j – Graph for ERP Part 2
10 March 2023

Graphs for Ease and Scalability in the Auto Industry: The 5-Minute Interview with Michal Stefanak
8 March 2023

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACENeo4jTimescaleDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Applying Graph Analytics to Game of Thrones
12 June 2019, Amy Hodler & Mark Needham, Neo4j (guest author)

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

The openCypher Project: Help Shape the SQL for Graphs
22 December 2015, Emil Eifrem (guest author)

show all

Recent citations in the news

FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English
10 November 2020, PR Newswire

FairCom DB
27 June 2022, dbdb.io

IoT Evolution Expo | Join The Session | FairCom
9 August 2022, faircom.com

Digital Media Coordinator
10 March 2023, jobs.siliconslopes.com

FairCom DB Architectural Concepts
29 April 2022, docs.faircom.com

provided by Google News

Neo4j Adds Cloud Managed Services Team From DTA
16 March 2023, ChannelE2E

The Great Graph Debate: Revolutionary concept in databases or niche curiosity?
6 March 2023, The Register

Graph Database Market to See Massive Growth by 2029 | Neo4j, Inc ...
17 March 2023, Digital Journal

Graph Database Market Analysis, Trends, Growth, Research and ...
23 March 2023, Digital Journal

Graphs Will Bring SG's Data-Driven Future to Life
22 February 2023, CDOTrends

provided by Google News

New TDengine Benchmark Results Show Up to 37.0x Higher Query ...
28 February 2023, The Bakersfield Californian

Timescale Valuation Rockets to Over $1B with $110M Round ...
22 February 2022, Business Wire

Timescale Announces OpenTelemetry Tracing Support for Promscale
16 May 2022, Business Wire

Timescale Releases Third State of PostgreSQL Report
29 July 2022, PR Newswire

Timescale launches the new Timescale Cloud, a hosted relational ...
5 October 2021, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Digital Media Coordinator
FairCom, Sandy, UT

SDR (Sales Development Representative)
FairCom, Salt Lake City, UT

Sales Development Representative
FairCom, Sandy, UT

Digital Media Coordinator
FairCom, Salt Lake City, UT

Digital Media Coordinator
FairCom, Columbia, MO

Open Data Specialist
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA

Neo4J - SME
Purple Drive Technologies, Remote

Graph Database Developer (Neo4j)
Business Integra Inc, Remote

Jr. Data Scientist
Kyla, San Jose, CA

Data Scientist. Team Lead.
Kyla, Remote

Senior Software Engineer
Tagup, Inc., Boston, MA

Full Stack Engineer
Legends of Learning, Timonium, MD

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Wärtsilä, Herndon, VA

Senior Software Engineer
Armorblox, Remote

Senior Full-Stack Developer
element^n, New York, NY

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Cassandra Forward online event

Want to level up your Cassandra game?
If you missed the event or would like to re-watch a session, replays are available now. Watch now!

Vertica logo

Vertica Accelerator. The fastest analytics and machine learning, delivered as SaaS, with automated setup, administration, and management. Free trial.

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

Present your product here