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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.firebirdsql.org

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

Initial release

1979

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2010

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

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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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

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

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

PSQL

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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 or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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