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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. NCache vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Key-value store

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	52.27
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#196	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#204	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Alachisoft

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

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1983

2005

2004

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.2, April 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

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#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

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

PHP

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Visual Basic.NET

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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