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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

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

informationpartners gmbh

Rocket Software

Initial release

1983

2004

2015

1985

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

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

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

configurable

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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