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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantplanetscale.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014PlanetScaleSTS Soft SC
Initial release19832012201020202011
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlangGoC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
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 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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 controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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