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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrdf4j.orgsiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Cesbit
Initial release19832017198420042017
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.07.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Active-active shard replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accounts

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