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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Datastore 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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

cloud.google.com/bigtable

cloud.google.com/datastore

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2015

2008

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes, details here

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

using Google App Engine

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

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

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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