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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.harperdb.io

nsdb.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

HarperDB

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1983

2017

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1, August 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

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

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Sharding

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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