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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. QuestDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storequestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1979200420172014
Current releaseV3, October 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C, Java, PythonC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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