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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Pivotal Software Inc.
Initial release19832012201720052014
Current release19.4.1, November 2021Nov 20, November 20217.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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