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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

rdf4j.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

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

Yandex

Initial release

1983

2014

2004

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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