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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

fauna.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.fauna.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

Fauna, Inc.

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

1979

2014

2017

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.0

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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