DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. JanusGraph vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. JanusGraph vs. SQLite

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.claris.com/filemaker

janusgraph.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2016

1983

2017

2000

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

19.4.1, November 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

PHP

Clojure
Java
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

LDAP bind authentication

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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