DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Initial release

1983

2014

2021

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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 organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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