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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml

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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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.gbase.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1979

2013

2014

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

GBase 8a

2.7.5, January 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

simple rights management via user accounts

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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