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DBMS > Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitefauna.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release2014198320122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authentication

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