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

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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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	52.27
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#199	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#204	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

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

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1983

2014

2004

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.0, April 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

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
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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