DBMS > 4D vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

1983

1994

2009

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

yes, using Riak Security

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