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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. DataFS vs. FileMaker

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

blueflood.io

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Rackspace

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

1984

2013

2018

1983

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

Windows-Profile

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

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