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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftChris DavisSTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19832010200620112014
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonC#C++, Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
Unix
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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