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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#209	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

typesense.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2012

1983

2005

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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