DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

memgraph.com

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Social network pages

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

Initial release

1983

2014

2017

1995

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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