DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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

Score	5.27
Rank	#67	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#255	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.scylladb.com

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.scylladb.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

ScyllaDB

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2015

2014

2000

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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