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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom DB vs. FileMaker vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom DB vs. FileMaker vs. PlanetScale

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.claris.com/­filemakerplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationplanetscale.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncFairCom CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePlanetScale
Initial release19842016197919832020
Current releasev20, April 2023V12, November 202019.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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 format
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
PHPAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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