DBMS > 4D vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1984

1983

2013

1999

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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