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DBMS > 4D vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
Developer4D, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHarperDBSpotify
Initial release19841983201720142001
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20213.1, August 20212.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infovia pluginsSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noJava, SQL
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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