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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comkylin.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comkylin.apache.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOxford Semantic TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release19842015198320172010
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.0, July 202019.4.1, November 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemaspredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHPC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14replication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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