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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.claris.com/­filemakersurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncRackspaceClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1984201319832022
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-free
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 format
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHPDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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