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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­spannerjanusgraph.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusGoogleMonetDB BV
Initial release19832017201720142004
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.6.3, February 20232.1.12, February 2017Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoyes, in SQL, C, R
TriggersyesnoyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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