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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbpostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasSimer Plaha
Initial release20161983201120052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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