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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comorigodb.compouchdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guideswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerRobert Friberg et alApache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release198320052009 infounder the name LiveDB20122008
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20237.1.1, June 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes
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 formatnono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationnono

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