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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Baidu

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1983

2018

2017

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9

2.0

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

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
macOS
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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