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DBMS > etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Memcached vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Memcached vs. SWC-DB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlex Kashirin
Initial release19832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20032020
Current release3.4, August 201919.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 20241.6.27, May 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 formatno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
PHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPSQLnono
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
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 14Source-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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