DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. etcd vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. etcd vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

FairCom Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2005

1979

2013

2008

Current release

14, December 2021

3.4, August 2019

V3, October 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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++

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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 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.

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