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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	51.58
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#244	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#19	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#210	Overall
	#33	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGNPV_2.0.0/welcome.html

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Percona

Initial release

1983

2017

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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