DBMS > Couchbase vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2011

2012

1983

2020

Current release

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

19.4.1, November 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

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