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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cnhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20121983200420122010
Current release1.0.6735, June 202319.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
PHPC#C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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