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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. Tigris

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2012200519832022
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
PHPGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and roles

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