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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

terminusdb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

velocitydb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2018

2009

2011

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

TinkerPop 3

.Net

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript
Python

Groovy
Java

.Net

Clojure
Java

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

Graph Partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Journaling Streams

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

optional

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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