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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Ultipa

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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.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

realm.io

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

realm.io/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Ultipa

Initial release

1984

1983

2014

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

yes

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