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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

OpenPie

Initial release

1983

2010

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Key customers

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