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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.datomic.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

siridb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.datomic.com

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

docs.siridb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Cognitect

FairCom Corporation

Cesbit

Initial release

1984

2012

1979

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.7180, July 2024

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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