DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.firebolt.io

www.h2database.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.firebolt.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2020

2005

1992

2013

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

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

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

depending on storage layer

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

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

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

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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