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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Graph Engine vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2008

2022

Current release

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++, Go

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

.NET

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Licensing and pricing models

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