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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.jaguardb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

1983

2015

1989

Current release

2022, May 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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