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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

maxdb.sap.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

origodb.com/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1979

1984

1989

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

V3, October 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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