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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HugeGraph vs. MySQL

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	51.15
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#282	Overall
	#22	Graph DBMS

Score	1182.79
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/hugegraph

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hugegraph.github.io/hugegraph-doc

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Baidu

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1983

2018

1995

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9

8.0.32, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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