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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Axibase Corporation

FairCom Corporation

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1979

1994

2013

Current release

15585

V3, October 2020

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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