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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

1983

2015

2014

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

rights management via user accounts

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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