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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Faircom EDGE vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

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 time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FairCom Corporation

Timescale

Initial release

2012

1979

2017

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V3, October 2020

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

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

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency
Tunable 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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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