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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. FileMaker vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

kylin.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

1984

2015

1983

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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