DBMS > FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gigaspaces.com

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Gigaspaces Technologies

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1983

2000

2009

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

15.5, September 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

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

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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