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DBMS > DataFS vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitenewdatabase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperMobiland AGClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisSpotifyEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20181983200620142019
Current release1.1.263, October 202219.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsWindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
PHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoLua
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-Profilesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnosimple password-based access control and ACL

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