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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

1983

2008

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes (enterprise version only)

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

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