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DBMS > 4D vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
Developer4D, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisPerconaSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release19841983200620152014
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20213.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infovia pluginsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
proprietary protocol using JSONCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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