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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegeode.apache.orggreenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFairCom CorporationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pivotal Software Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release19792002200519842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseV3, October 20201.1, February 20177.0.0, September 20237.9.10.12, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaC++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infosince Version 4.2noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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