DBMS > Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Altibase

FairCom Corporation

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

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1999

1979

2004

2013

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V3, October 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

RDF Schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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