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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#310	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ObjectBox Limited

Mireo

Speedb

Initial release

1983

2017

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C#
C++
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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