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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. OpenSearch vs. YDB

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gridgain.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Yandex

Initial release

1983

2007

2021

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Active-passive shard replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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