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DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. Faircom EDGE

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#194  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.dolthub.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHRackspaceDoltHub IncFairCom Corporation
Initial release19842007201320181979
Current releasev20, April 202311.2, August 2024V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesyes infoANSI SQL queries
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTCLI Client
HTTP REST
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infowhen using SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQL
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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