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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kingbase.com.cnrethinkdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleEmbarcaderoBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release19831984199920092017
Current release19.4.1, November 2021InterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 formatno infoexport as XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes
TriggersyesyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Interbase Change ViewsyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access control

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