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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. Datomic vs. FileMaker

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.RackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release20042013200520121983
Current release8.0, December 20233.3.3, December 20231.0.6735, June 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemaspredefined schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenononoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenononoyes infovia plugins
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoTransaction Functionsyes
TriggersyesnoyesBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services
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