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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatomic 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 environmentsA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
Developer4D, IncCognitectFairCom CorporationAmazon Web Services
Initial release1984201219792021
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.7180, July 2024V3, October 20202.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJava, ClojureANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, 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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 groupsnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionDatomicFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEOpenSearch
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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