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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Geode vs. HBase vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Geode vs. HBase vs. STSdb

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeWide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgeode.apache.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSTS Soft SC
Initial release1979200220082011
Current releaseV12, November 20201.1, February 20172.3.4, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentyes, on a single nodeSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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