DBMS > FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Manticore Software

SiteWhere

Initial release

1983

2014

2017

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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