DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

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

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2018

1983

1994

2013

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

PHP

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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