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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. FileMaker vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

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

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

1983

2018

2011

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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