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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgfauna.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.fauna.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFauna, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release2005201419832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015
Current release3.3.3, December 202319.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageErlangScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
PHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyesPSQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authentication

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