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DBMS > FileMaker vs. PlanetScale vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PlanetScale vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerplanetscale.comterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationplanetscale.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePlanetScaleDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19832020201820092011
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoProlog, RustJavaC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3.Net
Supported programming languagesPHPAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyesnono
TriggersyesyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph PartitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at shard levelACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRole-based access controlnoBased on Windows Authentication

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