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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. SingleStore vs. ToroDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.singlestore.com

github.com/torodb/server

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SingleStore Inc.

8Kdata

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1983

2013

2016

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.5, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, 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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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