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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. Transbase

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBChris DavisTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20041983201320061987
Current release8.0, December 202319.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyes
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 possibleyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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