DBMS > FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RavenDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	41.50
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	13.11
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.50
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

1983

2012

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Authorization levels configured per client per database

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Problemista - Features
1 March 2024, Reverse Shot

Tilda Swinton on 'Problemista' Fan Horror Stories About Her Character
1 March 2024, IndieWire

Claris’s Plans for FileMaker Bode Well for Individual Users
23 August 2022, TidBITS

Claris launches the last-ever annual FileMaker Pro release
20 May 2020, AppleInsider

Apple subsidiary FileMaker returns to its original name from the ’80s
6 August 2019, The Verge

provided by Google News

Supabase vs. Firebase: Which BaaS is Best for Your App?
14 August 2024, Netguru

Instant harkens back to a pre-Google Firebase
2 October 2024, TechCrunch

New FireScam Android Malware Abusing Firebase Services To Evade Detection
7 January 2025, GBHackers

New FireScam Android Malware Abusing Firebase Services To Evade Detection
6 January 2025, CybersecurityNews

Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
18 March 2024, The Register

provided by Google News

RavenDB Launches Version 6.0 Lightning Fast Queries, Data Integrations, Corax Indexing Engine, and Sharding
3 October 2023, PR Newswire

Install the NoSQL RavenDB Data System
14 May 2021, The New Stack

Get To Know: Oren Eini, CEO, RavenDB
22 October 2019, intelligentcio.com

provided by Google News

Share this page