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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. 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 environmentsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn 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 DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFairCom CorporationCirconus LLC.Hughes TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release1979201719942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current releaseV3, October 2020V0.10.20, January 20184.4, October 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C and C++CCScala
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesno
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.yesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
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
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, in Luanouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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