DBMS > FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1983

2009

2001

2000

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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, using Riak Security

Based on Windows Authentication

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