DBMS > Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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