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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#364	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	16.60
Rank	#34	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	2.82
Rank	#90	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

1979

2003

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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