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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. TDengine vs. Vertica

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesTime Series DBMS and big data platformCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.vertica.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.tdengine.comvertica.com/­documentation
Developer4D, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleTDEngine, previously Taos DataOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release19841983201120192005
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20211.23, February 20213.0, August 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infovia pluginsnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHPC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoringyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionFileMakerLevelDBTDengineVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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