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DBMS > FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasGoogleSimer Plaha
Initial release1983201120142018
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonono

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