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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsWidely used open source RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.mysql.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldev.mysql.com/­docopensearch.org/­docs/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunAmazon Web ServicesSiteWhere
Initial release1979199520212010
Current releaseV3, October 20208.4.0, April 20242.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioninghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEMySQLOpenSearchSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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