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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperElasticFairCom CorporationMicrosoftSiteWhereOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20101979201520101998
Current release8.6, January 2023V3, October 2020V111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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