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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

McObject

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2001

1979

2013

1995

Current release

8.2, 2021

V3, October 2020

2.7.5, January 2024

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

Numeric data and Strings

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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