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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.claris.com/filemaker

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1983

2017

1999

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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