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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2023

1983

1994

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

PHP

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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