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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Hughes Technologies

STS Soft SC

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1979

2012

1994

2011

2019

Current release

V3, October 2020

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

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++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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 data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

GraphQL is used as query language

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

none

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

none

Eventual 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

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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