DBMS > EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.02
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Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

memgraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Social network pages

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Memgraph Ltd

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

1983

2017

2021

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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