DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/apple/foundationdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

FoundationDB

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1979

2013

2014

1984

2005

Current release

V3, October 2020

6.2.28, November 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

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

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

some layers support typing

yes

JSON 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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

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
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

in SQL-layer only

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

yes, on a single node

ACID

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.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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