DBMS > Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. searchxml

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1997

2015

2012

1983

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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