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System Properties Comparison Apache Ignite vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name

Description

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2015

1979

Current release

2.16.0, December 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

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