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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. openGemini vs. Splice Machine vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB

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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.

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

splicemachine.com

www.tarantool.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengemini.org/guide

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Huawei and openGemini community

Splice Machine

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2022

2014

2008

2018

Current release

V12, November 2020

1.1, July 2023

3.1, March 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Open binary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Graph Partitioning

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).

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Role-based access control

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