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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CCRi and others

Oracle

Initial release

1983

2004

2014

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.0.1, July 2024

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

depending on storage layer

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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