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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

Initial release

1984

1983

2014

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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