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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

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

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

1983

2000

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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