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DBMS > FileMaker vs. HBase vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HBase vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerhbase.apache.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbobjectbox.ioravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.objectbox.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSymasObjectBox LimitedHibernating Rhinos
Initial release19832008201120172010
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 20210.9.32, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++C#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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