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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. RDFox

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20121983201220092017
Current release1.0.6735, June 202319.4.1, November 20210.9.8.11, March 20166.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor on file system levelreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoRoles, resources, and access types

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