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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenEdge vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

galaxybase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Progress Software Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1983

2017

1984

2018

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

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

Role-based access control

Users and groups

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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