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DBMS > etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeFileMaker 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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Gigaspaces TechnologiesHypertable Inc.
Initial release1983201220002009
Current release3.4, August 201919.4.1, November 202115.5, September 20200.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlno

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