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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Initial release

1983

2014

2015

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

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

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

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