DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Citus vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml

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

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFileMaker 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 analyticsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerrdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP, formerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20101983200419942015
Current release8.1, December 201819.4.1, November 202116.1 SPS04, April 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHPJava
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyesyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
CitusFileMakerRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQsearchxml
Recent citations in the news

Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS
5 March 2024, TechCrunch

How Citus Health Uses AWS to Provide Secure and Real-Time Virtual Patient Care - AWS Startups
18 August 2023, AWS Blog

Microsoft Benchmarks Distributed PostgreSQL DBs
10 July 2023, Datanami

Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
8 July 2023, InfoQ.com

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, re-affirming its commitment to Open Source and accelerating Azure PostgreSQL ...
24 January 2019, Microsoft

provided by Google News

Tilda Swinton on 'Problemista' Fan Horror Stories About Her Character
1 March 2024, IndieWire

Reviews - Features
1 March 2024, Reverse Shot

Apple Filed for new Trademarks in the U.S. and Hong Kong this week for the Figurative Version of 'Reality Composer ...
15 October 2023, Patently Apple

Apple Subsidiary to Face Worker's Job Loss Claims, but Not Apple
14 February 2024, Bloomberg Law

Claris FileMaker Pro 19 review
2 March 2022, TechRadar

provided by Google News

GraphDB Goes Open Source
27 January 2020, iProgrammer

Ontotext's GraphDB 8.10 Makes Knowledge Graph Experience Faster and Richer
13 June 2019, Markets Insider

provided by Google News

New Services in SAP HANA Cloud Lower TCO for Customers in Data-Intensive, Highly Regulated Industries
7 April 2021, SAP News

SAP Again Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems
16 December 2021, SAP News

Independent Research Firm Names SAP a Leader in Data Management for Analytics
17 February 2020, SAP News

SAP Products & Services Data Portfolio
2 July 2021, Datamation

SAP Scales Out HANA In-Memory For Clouds
6 March 2014, EnterpriseAI

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Present your product here