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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. MongoDB vs. mSQL vs. NuoDB

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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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hazelcast.com

www.mongodb.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Hazelcast

MongoDB, Inc

Hughes Technologies

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2008

2009

1994

2013

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.3.6, November 2023

7.0.5, January 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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