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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. H2

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	42.86
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#196	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	7.02
Rank	#50	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

FoundationDB

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

1983

2013

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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