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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	152.18
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#279	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

Developer

Elastic

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2010

1979

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is an open source search and analytics engine. As the heart of the...
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FairCom EDGE provides the power of a full-featured database that is designed specifically...
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Competitive advantages

Open source Real-time indexsearch, and analysis Horizontally scalable Distributed...
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Top Features JSON Multimodel SQL and NoSQL APIs Automatic database tuning Custom...
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Typical application scenarios

Enterprise search (search experiences for your workplace, apps, and websites), observability...
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FairCom EDGE can be deployed at or near the data collection point (sensors) and used...
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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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UPS, Verizon, Motorola, CommVault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell Automation,...
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Market metrics

Public as of October 2018 Distributed workforce with 1900+ employees around the globe...
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From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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Just as the technical aspects of FairCom EDGE are flexible to meet operation requirements,...
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