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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. Oracle vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Widely used RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.h2database.com

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Rackspace

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

1979

2005

1980

2011

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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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