DBMS > Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

greenplum.org

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.greenplum.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Pivotal Software Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

1983

2005

2013

2020

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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