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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FileMaker vs. Linter vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

linter.ru

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

relex.ru

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1997

1983

1990

1987

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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