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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. RavenDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. RavenDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQL.JS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 ElasticSearchOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicravendb.netwww.singlestore.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicravendb.net/­docsdocs.singlestore.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyHibernating RhinosSingleStore Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19832014201020132012
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.4, July 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++, GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesno

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