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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2010

2015

1983

2012

Current release

8.1, December 2018

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

no

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

yes

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

no

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