DBMS > Altibase vs. etcd vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. etcd vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Widely used RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Altibase

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

1999

1979

1980

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

V3, October 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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