DBMS > EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDF4J 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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

RDF store

Key-value store

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

rdf4j.org/documentation

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

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

1983

2014

2004

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

yes

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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