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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#365  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#152  Relational DBMS
Score36.48
Rank#21  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.54
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperFairCom CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release197919832013
Current releaseV3, October 202019.4.1, November 20212.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
PHP.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnoneSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFileMakerInfluxDB
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