DBMS > FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. SAP HANA

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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

Initial release

2017

1983

2010

Current release

2022, May 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

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