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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisHarperDBSpotifyEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release19832006201720142019
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonNode.jsJavaC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infoJSON data typesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noLua
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
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 servicesnoAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access control and ACL

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