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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRDF store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrdf4j.org/­documentation
Developer4D, IncAltibaseFairCom CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release19841999197920142004
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92yes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.nono

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