DBMS > FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. MongoDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. MongoDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gigaspaces.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.mongodb.com

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

1983

2000

1992

2009

1998

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

15.5, September 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

6.0.7, June 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

optional, enabled by default

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

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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