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

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RethinkDB 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

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

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

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	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

rethinkdb.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

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Exasol

FairCom Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2000

1979

2009

2010

2017

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

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

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a 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
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

range based

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

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

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.

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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