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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Well established RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.02
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	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2018

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

12.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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