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DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleAmazon Web Services
Initial release19842007198320212014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev20, April 202311.0, June 202419.4.1, November 20212.5.0, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
PHPGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writernonoACID infoMVCC
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBaseXFileMakerOpenSearchPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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