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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. MonetDB vs. Vertica

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationMonetDB BVOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release19792004201520042005
Current releaseV3, October 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.6Dec2023 (11.49), December 202312.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
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
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in SQL, C, Ryes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesyes (replicated cache)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGBaseIgniteMonetDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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