DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

couchdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

Initial release

1984

2016

2005

1979

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

3.3.3, December 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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