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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. atoti vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comatoti.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.atoti.iowww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAltibaseActiveViamClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftOpenNMS Group
Initial release1999198319922014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202319.4.1, November 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree versions availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)yes infovia pluginsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsPythonyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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