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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1983

2004

2012

1998

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1.3, April 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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