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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerboilerbay.compouchdb.comravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleBoiler Bay Inc.Apache Software FoundationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release1983200220122010
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.07.1.1, June 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnono
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaJavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 servicesnonoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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