DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. OpenMLDB

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.hawkular.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Community supported by Red Hat

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

1979

2012

2014

2020

Current release

V3, October 2020

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

JavaScript

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Fixed schema

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

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

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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