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DBMS > 4D vs. FileMaker vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerorientdb.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
Developer4D, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice Machine
Initial release19841983201020092014
Current releasev20, April 202319.4.1, November 20213.2.29, March 20243.2.0, December 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava, JavascriptErlangyes infoJava
TriggersyesyesHooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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