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DBMS > Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareMicrosoft 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.)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9developer.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Microsoft
Initial release2012198319911992
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 20215.71902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesoptionalyes
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 formatyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infovia pluginsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
PHP.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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