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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. OpenEdge

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

1994

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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 capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

Users and groups

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