DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#276	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

iotdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Embarcadero

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2018

1979

1984

2016

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

V3, October 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Native API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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