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DBMS > BigObject vs. Faircom EDGE vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Faircom EDGE vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgepouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015197920122018
Current releaseV3, October 20207.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infowhen using SQLnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.noRole-based access control

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