DBMS > EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

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

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.mongodb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Exasol

FairCom Corporation

MongoDB, Inc

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2000

1979

2009

2010

2017

Current release

V3, October 2020

6.0.7, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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