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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. mSQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.geomesa.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationFatCloudCCRi and othersHughes Technologies
Initial release20161979201220141994
Current releaseV3, October 20205.0.0, May 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++C#ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
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
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factordepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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