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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. Newts vs. openGauss

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

opennms.github.io/newts

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenNMS Group

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

1983

2011

1995

2014

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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