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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.ai
Developer4D, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release19841983201020162018
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++ and CUDAScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHPC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
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 groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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