DBMS > Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

quasar.ai

rethinkdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

quasardb

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1997

1979

2009

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V3, October 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

integer and binary

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

range based

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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