DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Percona

Mireo

Initial release

1983

2014

2001

2015

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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 Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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