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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gigaspaces.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGigaspaces TechnologiesCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release19832000201720042009
Current release19.4.1, November 202115.5, September 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luayesno
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as welloptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlnonono

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