DBMS > Couchbase vs. FileMaker vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. FileMaker vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

terminusdb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2011

1983

2018

2009

2011

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

TinkerPop 3

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PHP

JavaScript
Python

Groovy
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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