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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. Newts vs. Riak TS

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series 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	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

machbase.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Machbase

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

1983

2013

2014

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

volatile and lookup table

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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