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DBMS > EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSoftmotionsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Mireo
Initial release2012198320102020
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
PHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes

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