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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. GridDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. GridDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegriddb.netgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.griddb.nethugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationToshiba CorporationBaiduMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19792013201820152001
Current releaseV3, October 20205.1, August 20220.9V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGridDBHugeGraphMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSphinx
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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