DBMS > Aerospike vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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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	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

FairCom Corporation

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2014

2000

2012

Current release

7.0, November 2023

V3, October 2020

3.1, March 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

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

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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 rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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

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