DBMS > Couchbase vs. Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.datomic.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

geode.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.datomic.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Cognitect

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Spotify

Initial release

2011

2012

1983

2002

2014

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

By using transaction functions

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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