DBMS > EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document 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	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

2009

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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