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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB 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 environmentsJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgejsqldb.org (offline)www.monetdb.orgpostgis.netquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationKonrad von BackstromMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19792018200420052014
Current releaseV3, October 20200.8, December 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnoneSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEJSqlDbMonetDBPostGISQuestDB
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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