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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Sybase, SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

2016

2005

1993

2009

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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