DBMS > BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

hbase.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1983

2008

1994

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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