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DBMS > Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbterminusdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBDataChemist Ltd.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20081983201320182012
Current release7.2.4, September 201219.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 202011.0.0, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Prolog, RustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoRole-based access controlyes

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