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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2015

2009

1979

1983

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V12, November 2020

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, 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)

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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

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