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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

geode.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Gigaspaces Technologies

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1983

2002

2000

2010

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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