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DBMS > FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

1983

2001

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C#

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Java, SQL

no

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

no

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

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

no

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