DBMS > CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. Immudb vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. Immudb vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.mysql.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.immudb.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Codenotary

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TempoIQ

Initial release

2015

1983

2020

1995

2012

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like syntax

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role-based access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple authentication-based access control

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