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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Immudb vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.openpie.com

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.immudb.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Codenotary

OpenPie

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1983

2020

2004

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

2.1, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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