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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

Primary database model

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

blueflood.io

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Rackspace

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

1984

2013

2023

1983

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0, March 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Password-based authentication

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

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