DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB 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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hazelcast.com

ignite.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1979

2008

2015

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.3.6, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

Replicated Map

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

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

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