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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisInterSystems
Initial release19832006199720172009
Current release19.4.1, November 20212018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
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 servicesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlno

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