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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GreptimeDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL

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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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

greptime.com

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Greptime Inc.

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

1979

2022

2004

1994

Current release

V3, October 2020

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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