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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
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Score	48.59
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#90	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2015

1983

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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