DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Linter vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Linter vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.claris.com/filemaker

linter.ru

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

relex.ru

Initial release

1979

2012

1983

1990

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

V3, October 2020

19.4.1, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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