DBMS > Bangdb vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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.

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

planetscale.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

planetscale.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

1979

2012

2020

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V3, October 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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