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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.graphengine.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2010

2009

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

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