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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB

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Name

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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.jaguardb.com

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

1983

2015

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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.

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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