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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.81
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#114  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyPerconaApache Software Foundation
Initial release19832014201420152012
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScriptActionscript
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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