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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GigaSpaces vs. MaxDB vs. MongoDB vs. PouchDB

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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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

MongoDB, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2000

1984

2009

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

15.5, September 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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