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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

blueflood.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Rackspace

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

1983

2004

1994

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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