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DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Faircom EDGE

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFairCom 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 DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orgwww.datomic.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHCognitectFairCom Corporation
Initial release1984200720121979
Current releasev20, April 202310.7, August 20231.0.6735, June 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, 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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes 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
RESTful HTTP APIADO.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
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infowhen using SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQL
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
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.

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