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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. PlanetScale

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2015

2021

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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