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DBMS > FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergriddb.neten.gstore.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.griddb.neten.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release1983201320162010
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.1, August 20221.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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