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FileMaker System Properties

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Name

Description

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	46.40
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

1983

Current release

19, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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