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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpouchdb.comrockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software FoundationRocksetinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19832012201920152001
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.1.1, June 20191.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typingyesno
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 formatnono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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