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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. ITTIA vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ittia.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

ITTIA L.L.C.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2013

1983

2014

2007

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.7

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Database file passwords

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