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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Well established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational 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
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingres
Developer4D, IncAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleActian Corporation
Initial release1984201619831974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 202111.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infovia pluginsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Ingres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokenssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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