DBMS > Faircom DB vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB
System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB
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| Name | Faircom DB  formerly c-treeACE Xexclude from comparison | FileMaker Xexclude from comparison | Microsoft Access Xexclude from comparison | PostgreSQL Xexclude from comparison | YugabyteDB Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs. | FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend. | Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.) | Widely used open source RDBMS Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL | High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary database model | Key-value store Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module. | Relational DBMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary database models | Document store Graph DBMS with Apache AgeSpatial DBMS Vector DBMS with pgvector extension | Document store Wide column store | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db | www.claris.com/filemaker | www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access | www.postgresql.org | www.yugabyte.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technical documentation | docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html | www.claris.com/resources/documentation | developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access | www.postgresql.org/docs | docs.yugabyte.com github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer | FairCom Corporation | Claris a subsidiary of Apple | Microsoft | PostgreSQL Global Development Group www.postgresql.org/developer | Yugabyte Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initial release | 1979 | 1983 | 1992 | 1989 1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL | 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current release | V12, November 2020 | 19.4.1, November 2021 | 1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019 | 16.2, February 2024 | 2.19, September 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| License Commercial or Open Source | commercial Restricted, free version available | commercial | commercial Bundled with Microsoft Office | Open Source BSD | Open Source Apache 2.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Implementation language | ANSI C, C++ | C++ | C | C and C++ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server operating systems | AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs | iOS client part only Linux OS X Windows | Windows Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs | FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OpenBSD OS X Solaris Unix Windows | Linux OS X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data scheme | schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema, | yes | yes | yes | depending on used data model | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures | yes | yes | yes | 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. | no | yes A http query request can return the data in XML format | yes specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality. | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary indexes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SQL Support of SQL | yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions | yes via plugins | yes but not compliant to any SQL standard | yes standard with numerous extensions | yes, PostgreSQL compatible | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APIs and other access methods | ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC | Filemaker WebDirect JDBC ODBC | ADO.NET DAO ODBC OLE DB | ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects | JDBC YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supported programming languages | .Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic | PHP | C C# C++ Delphi Java (JDBC-ODBC) VBA Visual Basic.NET | .Net C C++ Delphi Java JDBCJavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl | C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Rust Scala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server-side scripts Stored procedures | yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++ | yes | yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine | user defined functions realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc. | yes sql, plpgsql, C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Triggers | yes | yes | yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning | none | none | partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash | Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution). | Source-replica replication, warm standby since Version 14 | none | Source-replica replication other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions | Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction | Immediate Consistency | Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign keys Referential integrity | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent | no | ACID but no files for transaction logging | ACID | Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Durability Support for making data persistent | Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory | yes | yes but no files for transaction logging | yes | yes based on RocksDB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User concepts Access control | Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files | simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services | no a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003 | fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE | FileMaker | Microsoft Access | PostgreSQL | YugabyteDB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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