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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. FileMaker vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

developers.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Event Store Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

LeanXcale

Initial release

2012

1983

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

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

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