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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite

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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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
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	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rethinkdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1979

2010

2009

2000

Current release

V3, October 2020

V12

2.4.1, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

MVCC based

yes

via file-system locks

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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