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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Citus vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

arcadedb.com

www.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Arcade Data

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2021

2010

1983

1984

2013

Current release

September 2021

8.1, December 2018

19.4.1, November 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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