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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Hive vs. QuestDB vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehive.apache.orgquestdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homequestdb.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookQuestDB Technology IncOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19792012201419982014
Current releaseV3, October 20203.1.3, April 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoPL/SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEHiveQuestDBTimesTenTrafodion
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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