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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hazelcast.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

FairCom Corporation

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

1979

2008

1995

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

V3, October 2020

5.3.6, November 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

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.

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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