DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. mSQL vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. mSQL vs. PlanetScale

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Hughes Technologies

PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

1979

1994

2020

Current release

V3, October 2020

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

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

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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

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