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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. jBASE

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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

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

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

1983

2005

1991

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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