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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GraphDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWidely used in-process key-value storeA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOntotextSpotifyOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePercona
Initial release19832000201419942015
Current release19.4.1, November 202110.4, October 202318.1.40, May 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatnonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynonoJavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoConstraint checkingnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.noAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
FileMakerGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHeroicOracle Berkeley DBPercona Server for MongoDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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