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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	53.08
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#284	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

riak.com/products/riak-ts

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

1983

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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