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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. MarkLogic vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. MarkLogic vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 ElasticSearchOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.marklogic.compouchdb.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.marklogic.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyMarkLogic Corp.Apache Software FoundationSybase, SAP
Initial release19832014200120121993
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.0, December 20227.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infoSQL92noyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, with Range Indexesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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