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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. TimesTen

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.68
Rank	#76	Overall
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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

1983

1994

1998

Current release

0.10, February 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
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

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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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