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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2016198320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2016
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.1.12, February 201710 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 formatnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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