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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.stardog.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Stardog-Union

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1983

1984

2010

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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