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DBMS > BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score44.40
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.64
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gigaspaces.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGigaspaces TechnologiesSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2015198320001992
Current release19.4.1, November 202115.5, September 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infovia pluginsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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