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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

manticoresearch.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Manticore Software

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1983

2005

2017

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Can index from XML

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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