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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebird

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#109	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#274	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	22.75
Rank	#30	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

4D, Inc

FairCom Corporation

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

1984

1979

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

v18.1, March 2020

V3, October 2020

3.0.7 , October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

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

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

available via 3rd party products

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

yes

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

FairCom EDGE provides the power of a full-featured database that is designed specifically...
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Competitive advantages

Top Features JSON Multimodel SQL and NoSQL APIs Automatic database tuning Custom...
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Typical application scenarios

FairCom EDGE can be deployed at or near the data collection point (sensors) and used...
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Key customers

UPS, Verizon, Motorola, CommVault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell Automation,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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