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DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker 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.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.stardog.comterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.stardog.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerStardog-UnionDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19832005201020182017
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20237.3.0, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesyes
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
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 servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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