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DBMS > FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. Stardog vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. Stardog vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergriddb.netwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.griddb.netdocs.stardog.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleToshiba CorporationStardog-UnionAurelius, owned by DataStaxApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19832013201020122014
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.1, August 20227.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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 formatnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavayesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FileMakerGridDBStardogTitanTrafodion
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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