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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. FileMaker vs. ObjectBox vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

McObject

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ObjectBox Limited

Yanza

Initial release

2001

1983

2017

2015

Current release

8.2, 2021

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

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

PHP

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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