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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. Tigris vs. VelocityDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.tigrisdata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.tigrisdata.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleTigris Data, Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19832010201120222011
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.23, February 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnononono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
TriggersyesyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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