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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. FileMaker vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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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.

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
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Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.claris.com/filemaker

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1983

2001

2000

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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