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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2014

2009

2011

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes

yes, using Riak Security

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