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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

FatCloud

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2010

2008

1998

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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