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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comwww.exasol.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBExasolClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSimer Plaha
Initial release19842012200019832018
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
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.yesnonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL like support with command line toolyesyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
PHPJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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