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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Galaxybase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFairCom CorporationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司HEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Google
Initial release19792017201620102014
Current releaseV3, October 2020Nov 20, November 20215.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C and JavaC++ and CUDAErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Strong typed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Go
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined procedures and functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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