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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PouchDB vs. XTDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousepouchdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMApache Software FoundationJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1983201420122019
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.1.1, June 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptClojure
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 formatno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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