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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. MonetDB vs. OrientDB vs. PostGIS vs. Stardog

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.monetdb.orgorientdb.orgpostgis.netwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationMonetDB BVOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPStardog-Union
Initial release19792004201020052010
Current releaseV3, October 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.29, March 20243.4.2, February 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language, no joinsyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, in SQL, C, RJava, Javascriptuser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
TriggersyesyesHooksyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding via remote tablesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesyes inforelationship in graphsyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and roles

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