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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Graphite vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Graphite vs. OpenEdge

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationChris DavisProgress Software Corporation
Initial release19832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20061984
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Python
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
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers and groups

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