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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. SwayDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL 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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

galaxybase.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

1983

2017

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

19.4.1, November 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

PHP

Go
Java
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

Role-based access control

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