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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	40.22
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#331	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.53
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

quasar.ai

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

quasardb

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

1983

2009

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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