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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HugeGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
boilerbay.compostgis.netravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualpostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleBaiduBoiler Bay Inc.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release19832018200220052010
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.94.03.4.2, February 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesno
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPGroovy
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers, roles and permissionsnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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