DBMS > FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Trino

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1983

1994

1995

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

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

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

no user groups or roles

SQL standard access control

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