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DBMS > Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.
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.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20081983201220042015
Current release7.2.4, September 201219.4.1, November 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
PHP.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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