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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Geode vs. H2

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

geode.apache.org

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

1983

2002

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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