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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OrientDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

orientdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2010

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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