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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.82
Rank	#108	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#304	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#173	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	9.89
Rank	#49	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#345	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

1979

2005

2014

2011

Current release

V3, October 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

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

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin 3.3

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

none

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Realm database is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
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