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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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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.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1983

1998

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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