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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. LokiJS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Axibase Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2013

1983

2014

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

19.4.1, November 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

PHP

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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