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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationThomas MuellerCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystems
Initial release19792005201320101997
Current releaseV3, October 20202.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
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-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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