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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. ITTIA vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. TypeDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ittia.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtstypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikitypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleITTIA L.L.C.OpenNMS GroupVaticle
Initial release19832007201420142016
Current release19.4.1, November 20218.72.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalnoyesyes
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesDatabase file passwordsnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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FileMakerITTIALokiJSNewtsTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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