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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Splice Machine

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyPerconaSplice Machine
Initial release19832014201420152014
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20173.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptyes infoJava
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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
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 rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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