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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.claris.com/­filemakersiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesCesbit
Initial release19842012198320092017
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCErlangC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoNumeric data
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCPHPC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin PythonyesErlangno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, using Riak Securitysimple rights management via user accounts

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