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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmanticoresearch.comobjectbox.ioravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.objectbox.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasManticore SoftwareObjectBox LimitedHibernating Rhinos
Initial release19832011201720172010
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20246.0, February 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesno
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 formatnoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary native 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 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
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonoyesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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