DBMS > Aerospike vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google BigQuery vs. SwayDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google BigQuery vs. SwayDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

cloud.google.com/bigquery

swaydb.simer.au

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

FairCom Corporation

Google

Simer Plaha

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2018

1985

Current release

7.0, November 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

optional

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

Aerospike a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards
22 May 2024

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms
15 May 2024

Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report
7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

Aerospike Achieves the new AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency
30 November 2023

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