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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. LMDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGoogleChris DavisHypertable Inc.Symas
Initial release19792017200620092011
Current releaseV3, October 20200.9.8.11, March 20160.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++PythonC++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesNumeric data onlyno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonono

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