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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. Quasardb

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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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

quasardb

Initial release

2012

1983

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

integer and binary

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

consistent hashing

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

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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