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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

nsdb.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1979

2002

2010

2017

2018

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
macOS

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

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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 per client and object definable

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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