DBMS > FileMaker vs. Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Score	48.20
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	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

memgraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.snowflake.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

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Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Memgraph Ltd

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1983

2017

1993

2014

1985

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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