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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.monetdb.org

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MonetDB BV

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

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

Initial release

1983

2004

1993

2004

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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