DBMS > FileMaker vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1983

2014

1995

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

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

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

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