DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1979

2014

2011

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

24.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON types

optional

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

multiple readers, single writer

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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