DBMS > FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Speedb

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1983

2013

2020

2018

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Journaling Streams

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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