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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.harperdb.io

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

HarperDB

Google

Initial release

1983

2017

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

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