DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

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

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

1979

2017

2014

2015

Current release

V12, November 2020

V3, October 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

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

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 with proprietary extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

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

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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

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