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DBMS > 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgemachbase.comspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncFairCom CorporationMachbaseApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19841979201320142014
Current releasev20, April 2023V3, October 2020V8.0, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.simple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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