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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2013

1983

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

15585

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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