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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. NCache

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Alachisoft

Initial release

2016

2013

1979

2012

2005

Current release

15585

V3, October 2020

5.3, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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 based on subaccounts and tokens

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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