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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Greenplum vs. Sphinx

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsAnalytic 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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.mcobject.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegreenplum.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.greenplum.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMcObjectFairCom CorporationPivotal Software Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2001197920052001
Current release8.2, 2021V3, October 20207.0.0, September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesno
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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availableyesyes infosince Version 4.2
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesno
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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