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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2008

1983

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

yes, using Riak Security

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