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DBMS > EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Riak KV

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperSoftmotionsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012198320132009
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.7.6, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGoErlang
Server operating systemsserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesNumeric data and Stringsno
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 indexesnoyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
PHP.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple rights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Security
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EJDBFileMakerInfluxDBRiak KV
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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