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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Heroic vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. SwayDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value 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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicnsdb.ioopentsdb.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationSpotifycurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release19792014201720112018
Current releaseV3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaJava, ScalaJavaScala
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.nono

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