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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.sequoiadb.comsplicemachine.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSequoiadb Ltd.Splice MachineDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19832013201420182011
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1, March 202111.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptyes infoJavayesno
TriggersyesnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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