DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Initial release

1984

2012

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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