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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase vs. WakandaDB

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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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

quasar.ai

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

quasardb

Transaction Software GmbH

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2017

2009

1987

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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