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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

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

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1979

1995

2011

1998

2019

Current release

V3, October 2020

8.3.0, January 2024

23.3, December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

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

Data scheme

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

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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 data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

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
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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