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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. SQL.JS

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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

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.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

1979

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C#

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

yes

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.

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

ANSI SQL queries

no

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C#

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

PSQL

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

via applications

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

none

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

when using SQL

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

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.

no

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no

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