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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.comsphinxsearch.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyMemgraph LtdSphinx Technologies Inc.Tencent
Initial release19832014201720012013
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers, roles and permissionsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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FileMakerHeroicMemgraphSphinxTDSQL for MySQL
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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