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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 WhisperDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-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 DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iorethinkdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19832006200920112014
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license 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
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes 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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basednoneSharding
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 systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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