DBMS > FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rdf4j.org

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

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

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

1984

2004

2017

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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