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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyMonetDB BVPerconaSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19832014200420152022
Current release19.4.1, November 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in SQL, C, RJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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