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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hive vs. Kingbase vs. PouchDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerhive.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release1983201219992012
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1.3, April 2022V8.0, August 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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