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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 vs. OceanBase vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 vs. OceanBase vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRDF storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Wide column store
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2en.oceanbase.comrdf4j.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2en.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databaserdf4j.org/­documentationwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Wakanda SAS
Initial release19831983 infohost version201020042012
Current release19.4.1, November 202112.1, October 20164.3.0, April 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replication using Paxosnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes

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