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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. XTDB

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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

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.databricks.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Databricks

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1979

2012

2019

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

with Databricks SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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