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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. ObjectBox

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012198320062017
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsWindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#PHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesnono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes
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