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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake 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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
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	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

FairCom Corporation

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2019

2009

2014

2018

Current release

V3, October 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

integer and binary

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Lua

user defined functions

yes

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

consistent hashing

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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 and ACL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

Role-based access control

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