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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. Yanza

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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Description

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Alachisoft

Yanza

Initial release

1979

2017

2005

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, in Lua

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic 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.

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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