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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SingleStore vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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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.

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.singlestore.com

vitess.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.singlestore.com

vitess.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

FatCloud

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SingleStore Inc.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1984

2013

2012

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.5, January 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

64 bit version required

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript

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

hash partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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