DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2015

2014

2006

2018

Current release

V3, October 2020

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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