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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationkairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSimer Plaha
Initial release19842014198320132018
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201919.4.1, November 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
PHPJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancysimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple password-based access controlno

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