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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. Graphite

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergeospock.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeoSpockChris Davis
Initial release201619832006
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptPython
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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