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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. YottaDB

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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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gbase.cn

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1979

2012

2004

2001

Current release

V3, October 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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