DBMS > BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Website

bigobject.io

cachelot.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

1983

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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