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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. OpenTSDB

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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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.claris.com/filemaker

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Axibase Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1984

2013

1983

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

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
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

PHP

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

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