DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

1979

2021

2019

1993

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual 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

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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