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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. SingleStore

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score6.31
Rank#57  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperDataStaxFairCom CorporationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifySingleStore Inc.
Initial release20111979200220142013
Current release6.8, April 2020V3, October 20201.1, February 20178.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Datastax Astra DB: Astra DB simplifies cloud-native Cassandra application development for your apps, microservices and functions. Deploy in minutes on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and have it managed for you by the experts, with serverless, pay-as-you-go pricing.SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++JavaJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"File partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights per client and object definableFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Datastax EnterpriseFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGeodeHeroicSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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