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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

FileMaker 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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Initial release

1997

1983

2004

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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