DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

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

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com

rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Rockset

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1983

2014

2012

2019

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

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