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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CrateDB vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed Database based on LuceneFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcratedb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperCrateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release20132013198320132004
Current release19.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageGoJavaC++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)yesin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes
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BoltDBCrateDBFileMakerFoundationDBGBase
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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