DBMS > FatDB vs. MySQL vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. MySQL vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.singlestore.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

FatCloud

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SingleStore Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

1995

2013

2020

2009

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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