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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Realm

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.claris.com/­filemakerrealm.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201219832014
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#
Server operating systemsWindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#PHP.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes

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