DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. GreptimeDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GreptimeDB vs. Snowflake

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

greptime.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Greptime Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1979

2022

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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++

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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