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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

FatCloud

Chris Davis

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Initial release

2012

2006

1984

2010

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

none

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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