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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1984

2015

1983

2006

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data 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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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