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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitefauna.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerrdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP, formerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20141983200419942015
Current release19.4.1, November 202116.1 SPS04, April 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
PHPJava
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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