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DBMS > FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerorigodb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerorigodb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release1983201120192009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 2024cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC#Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 formatnoyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.NetClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on modelyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRole based authorizationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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