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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.81
Rank	#116	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2010

1979

Current release

8.1, December 2018

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

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

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

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.

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