DBMS > DuckDB vs. FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Manticore Software

Oracle

Initial release

2018

1983

2017

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

0.10, February 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

PHP

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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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