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DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoMesa

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orgbigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orgdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationCCRi and others
Initial release19842007201519792014
Current releasev20, April 202310.7, August 2023V3, October 20205.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
depending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writernoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
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.noyesyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBaseXBigObjectFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGeoMesa
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