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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MySQL vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2015

1979

1995

1993

Current release

V3, October 2020

8.3.0, January 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

with some exceptions

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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