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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

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

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

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

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Initial release

2013

1983

2004

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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

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

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