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DBMS > Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Access

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMicrosoft 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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20121983200220141992
Current release1.0.7180, July 202419.4.1, November 20211.1, February 20171902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
PHP.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodenoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes 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 inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights per client and object definableno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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