DBMS > FatDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

FatCloud

Boiler Bay Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2002

2014

2000

2012

Current release

4.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

simple authentication-based access control

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