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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. QuestDB

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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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

questdb.io

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

1979

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

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

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