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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RDFox vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

2017

1994

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

replication via a shared file system

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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