DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model DBMS and application server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

InterSystems

SAP

Initial release

1983

2010

1997

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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