DBMS > Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1999

1983

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

PHP

JavaScript

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Role based authorization

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