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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

postgis.net

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

postgis.net/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

FatCloud

Chris Davis

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2006

2005

2018

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Role-based access control

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