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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 engineNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.graphengine.iowww.sequoiadb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.Simer Plaha
Initial release1983201020132018
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++Scala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoDocument is locked during a transactionAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyes
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 servicessimple password-based access controlno

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FileMakerGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinitySequoiadbSwayDB
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