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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. OceanBase vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.jaguardb.com

en.oceanbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataJaguar, Inc.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Mireo

Initial release

1984

1983

2015

2010

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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