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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.heavy.ai

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1983

2004

2016

2006

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.10, January 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
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

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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