DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

blueflood.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

4D, Inc

Rackspace

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2013

1983

1994

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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