DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. MariaDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. MariaDB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.dbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

Asthon Tate

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Qdrant

Initial release

2004

1979

1983

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2021

Current release

8.0, December 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

11.5.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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