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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Faircom DB vs. GigaSpaces vs. SingleStore vs. SiteWhere

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMySQL 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 typeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.gigaspaces.comwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.singlestore.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBFairCom CorporationGigaspaces TechnologiesSingleStore Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release20051979200020132010
Current release14, December 2021V12, November 202015.5, September 20208.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCANSI C, C++Java, C++, .NetC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesyes
Triggersyesyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesRole-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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EDB PostgresFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEGigaSpacesSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSiteWhere
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