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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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