DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2014

1998

2009

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON 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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Groovy
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

JavaScript

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

optional

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.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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