DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

InterSystems

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

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

Initial release

1979

2018

2014

2004

Current release

V3, October 2020

2023.3, June 2023

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
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

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate 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

using RocksDB

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

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

yes

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