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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20121983201220111987
Current release1.20.3, January 202319.4.1, November 20217.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infovia pluginsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++PHPJavaScriptC#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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