DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hyprcubd.com (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

McObject

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2001

1983

2014

2015

Current release

8.2, 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

JSON types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

token access

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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