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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully managed big data interactive analytics platformOracles in-memory data grid solutionA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOracleRobert Friberg et al
Initial release19832010201920072009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release19.4.1, November 2021cloud service with continuous releases14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 formatnoyesnono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoLive Eventsyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAzure Active Directory Authenticationauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole based authorization

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