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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MarkLogic vs. PouchDB vs. XTDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.marklogic.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.marklogic.compouchdb.com/­guideswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMarkLogic Corp.Apache Software FoundationJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1983200120122019
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.0, December 20227.1.1, June 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptClojure
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infoSQL92nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno

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