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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.hawkular.org

www.jaguardb.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Community supported by Red Hat

DataJaguar, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1983

2014

2015

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

rights management via user accounts

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