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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Derby vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19841997202319831998
Current releasev20, April 202310.17.1.0, November 20231.0, March 202319.4.1, November 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesscheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyes infovia pluginsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
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
PHPC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored ProceduresLuayesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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