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DBMS > FileMaker vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakeren.gstore.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release198320162010
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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