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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Immudb vs. RDF4J vs. Realm vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Immudb vs. RDF4J vs. Realm vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker 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.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRDF storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
rdf4j.orgrealm.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.immudb.iordf4j.org/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCodenotarySince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Simer Plaha
Initial release19832020200420142018
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.2.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like syntaxnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyesno

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