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DBMS > FatDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFatCloudChris DavisMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012200620102018
Current releaseV1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#PythonC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnoTransact SQLyes
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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