DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#364	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#190	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#270	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/apple/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/datastore

nsdb.io

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

FoundationDB

Google

Initial release

1979

2013

2008

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

V3, October 2020

6.2.28, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

some layers support typing

yes, details here

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

in SQL-layer only

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

in SQL-layer only

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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