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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. SiriDB vs. Solr vs. Sphinx

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOpen Source Time Series DBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#346  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score44.28
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.jaguardb.comsiridb.comsolr.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.siridb.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleDataJaguar, Inc.CesbitApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19832015201720062001
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.3 July 20239.5.0, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesCJavaC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingno
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava pluginsno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononooptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesrights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsyesno

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