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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. ITTIA vs. Newts vs. Riak TS

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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.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ittia.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ITTIA L.L.C.

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

1983

2007

2014

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.7

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Database file passwords

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