DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
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Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
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	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

db.apache.org/derby

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

1997

1979

2011

2013

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V3, October 2020

24.1, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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