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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker 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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.heavy.aidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release1983201220161991
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.10, January 20225.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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