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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hsqldb.org

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

1983

2001

1984

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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