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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. FileMaker vs. Immudb vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

All 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.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.immudb.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Codenotary

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2018

1983

2020

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

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

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

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