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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	3.63
Rank	#73	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#364	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	16.60
Rank	#34	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

1997

1979

2003

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V3, October 2020

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

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

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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