DBMS > FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/apple/foundationdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rockset.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rockset.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

FoundationDB

Microsoft

Rockset

Rocket Software

Initial release

1983

2013

2014

2019

1985

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

JSON types

dynamic typing

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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