DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. eXtremeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. eXtremeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.mcobject.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

McObject

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2001

1979

2012

2020

Current release

8.2, 2021

V3, October 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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