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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgjsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release19832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142018
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 20240.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnofunctions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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