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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Kdb vs. mSQL vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Kdb vs. mSQL vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsHigh performance Time Series DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgekx.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcode.kx.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcHughes Technologiescurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release19792000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319942011
Current releaseV3, October 20203.6, May 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++qCJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (q)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioninghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.rights management via user accountsnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEKdbmSQL infoMini SQLOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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