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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. RavenDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
boilerbay.comravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduBoiler Bay Inc.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release19832012201820022010
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.94.05.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionsnoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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