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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hive vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore vs. TerarkDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeMySQL 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 typeA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerhive.apache.orgwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.singlestore.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSingleStore Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19832012200920132016
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1.3, April 20223.2.0, December 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceErlangyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes, using Riak SecurityFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesno
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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