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DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. Galaxybase

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.claris.com/­filemakergalaxybase.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer4D, IncRackspaceClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司
Initial release1984201319832017
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 2021Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHPGo
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined procedures and functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access control

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