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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tkrzw

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Sybase, SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

1983

1993

2020

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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