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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.marklogic.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.marklogic.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MarkLogic Corp.SiteWhere
Initial release19841983199120012010
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20215.711.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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 formatyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infovia pluginsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHP.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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