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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

FairCom Corporation

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1984

1979

2014

2004

Current release

v20, April 2023

V3, October 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

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

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

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