DBMS > FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SurrealDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SurrealDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

surrealdb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1983

2011

2014

2022

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.23, February 2021

v1.1.1, January 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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