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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed reliable key-value store

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1984

1983

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.4, August 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

PHP

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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