DBMS > etcd vs. FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2gis.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1983

2013

1995

Current release

3.4, August 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

PHP

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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