DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. JaguarDB vs. Realm vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. JaguarDB vs. Realm vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.jaguardb.com

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1979

2015

2014

1994

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual 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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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