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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

FileMaker 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 engine

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.graphengine.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1983

2010

1994

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role based authorization

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