DBMS > 4D vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Spotify

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1984

1983

2010

2014

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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