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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

1983

2019

2001

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

PHP

Clojure
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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