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

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

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
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	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.hawkular.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Community supported by Red Hat

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1979

2012

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

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

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

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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