DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

1983

2014

2013

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

PHP

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

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

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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

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