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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1979

2014

2018

2011

Current release

V3, October 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Journaling Streams

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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