DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. Teradata

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

IBM

Alachisoft

Teradata

Initial release

2007

1979

2017

2005

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V3, October 2020

2.0

5.3.3, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
» more

Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
» more

Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
» more

Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
» more

Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Teradata is the most popular data warehouse DBMS
2 April 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

XML Injection Attacks: What to Know About XPath, XQuery, XXE & More
18 May 2022, Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

9 Skills You Need to Become a Data Engineer
2 November 2022, KDnuggets

provided by Google News

Innovative Software and Giant Lego Sets, Why FairCom Edge Booth is a Must-Visit at Automate
9 May 2024, MVPro

FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English
10 November 2020, PR Newswire

Brokers, Protocols, Platform Move Manufacturing Data
26 July 2023, EE Times

Winners of the 2021 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Awards Announced
6 July 2021, IoT Evolution World

Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2023
8 December 2022, Database Trends and Applications

provided by Google News

The vision for Db2
26 February 2019, biplatform.nl

Advancements in streaming data storage, real-time analysis and machine learning
25 July 2019, ibm.com

IBM Builds New Ultra-Fast Platform for Hoovering Up and Analyzing Data from Anywhere
31 May 2018, Data Center Knowledge

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an 'AI Database'
3 June 2019, Datanami

Best cloud databases of 2022
4 October 2022, ITPro

provided by Google News

How to use NCache in ASP.Net Core
26 February 2019, InfoWorld

Custom Response Caching Using NCache in ASP.NET Core
22 April 2020, InfoQ.com

NCache 4.4 Open Sourced
16 January 2015, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Teradata AI Unlimited joins Microsoft Fabric in private preview By Investing.com
21 May 2024, Investing.com

Lakehouse dam breaks after departure of long-time Teradata CTO
1 May 2024, The Register

Q3 2025 EPS Estimates for Teradata Co. (NYSE:TDC) Reduced by Analyst
21 May 2024, MarketBeat

Teradata Stockholders Approve Incentive Plan and Elect Directors - TipRanks.com
17 May 2024, TipRanks

Bear of the Day: Teradata (TDC)
17 May 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

provided by Google News

Share this page