DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

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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.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

informationpartners gmbh

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

2005

2004

2015

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

1.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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