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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerrdf4j.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2023198320042017
Current release1.0, March 202319.4.1, November 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 format
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
PHPJava
PHP
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoRoles, resources, and access types

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