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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHEAVY.AI, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1983201620142013
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.10, January 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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