DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Valentina Server

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

geode.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

FairCom Corporation

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

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1979

2002

2013

2014

1999

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.1, February 2017

1.2.2, November 2018

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.