DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

The 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.

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

ignite.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

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

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

EnterpriseDB

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2005

1979

2015

1989

2018

Current release

14, December 2021

V3, October 2020

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

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++

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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