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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 WhisperWidely used in-process key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19832006199420112014
Current release19.4.1, November 202118.1.40, May 20204.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#C++, Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 formatnoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSource-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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