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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Oracle vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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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 RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.oracle.com/database

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

1979

1980

2013

2010

1998

Current release

V3, October 2020

23c, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

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

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

none

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

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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