DBMS > FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gridgain.com

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1983

2007

1995

2019

2008

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

8.4.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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