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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Kdb vs. Kingbase vs. LevelDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroickx.comwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccode.kx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Google
Initial release198320142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319992011
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.6, May 2018V8.0, August 20211.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaqC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 formatnoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (q)Standard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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FileMakerHeroicKdbKingbaseLevelDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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