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DBMS > FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.harperdb.iowww.hawkular.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHarperDBCommunity supported by Red HatEmbarcadero
Initial release20121983201720141984
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1, August 2021InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#Node.jsJavaC
Server operating systemsWindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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