DBMS > FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. ReductStore vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. ReductStore vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ReductStore LLC

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

1983

2023

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.9, March 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

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