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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. jBASE vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.h2database.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2005

1991

2014

2013

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

5.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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