DBMS > DataFS vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

newdatabase.com

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Mobiland AG

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2018

2000

1983

2021

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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