DBMS > Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Altibase

Esgyn

FairCom Corporation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1999

2015

1979

2013

2021

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V3, October 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

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.

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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