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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 WhisperJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webpouchdb.comquasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iopouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisApache Software FoundationquasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19832006201220092014
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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