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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GBase vs. Graphite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	51.58
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.12
Rank	#165	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	5.35
Rank	#77	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#254	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase8a.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

trafodion.apache.org

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1983

2006

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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