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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

Percona

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1983

2014

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a

4.0.5, February 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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