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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. gStore vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

en.gstore.cn

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1983

2016

2017

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2, November 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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