DBMS > Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. QuestDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

questdb.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Percona

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2008

1979

2012

2015

2014

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

V3, October 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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