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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

ActiveViam

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2012

1983

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

via applications

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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