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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Raima Database Manager vs. XTDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker 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 processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicraima.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.raima.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyRaima Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release19832002201419842019
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.1, February 201715, June 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCClojure
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (OQL)noyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights per client and object definableno
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FileMakerGeodeHeroicRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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