DBMS > FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1983

2014

1984

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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