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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GreptimeDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.postgresql.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Greptime Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1979

2022

1984

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2017

Current release

V3, October 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

16.3, May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

yes

depending on used data model

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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