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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.73
Rank#259  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score53.60
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#184  Overall
#31  Document stores
#30  Key-value stores
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFileMaker infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDB
Initial release201519832013
Current release0.11.0, September 202219.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higheriOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typing
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer only
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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