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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. Titan vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

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

Primary database model

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Rocket Software

Initial release

1983

2013

2012

1985

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API

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

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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