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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 WhisperA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisPerconaSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19832006201520012014
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJavaScriptnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
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 methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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