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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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