DBMS > EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Firebird Foundation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2000

1983

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2021

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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