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DBMS > Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakermaxdb.sap.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibaseClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sequoiadb Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19991983198420131998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202319.4.1, November 20217.9.10.12, February 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesJavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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