DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2016

2015

2014

2006

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.10, January 2022

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

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

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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

yes

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