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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1979

2013

2014

1984

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.2.2, November 2018

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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