DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

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

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

FairCom Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

1979

2017

2000

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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