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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comdrill.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgerdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release19992012197920042015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 2023V3, October 20201.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.noDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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