DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Linter vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Linter vs. Snowflake

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

linter.ru

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

relex.ru

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2012

1990

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
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

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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