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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2gis.org

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

realm.io/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CNRS

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

1983

2013

2014

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

based on H2

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on H2

none

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

yes

based on H2

yes

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