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DBMS > FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBSpotifyPerconaQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19832013201420152009
Current release19.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynoJavaScript
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
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 infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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