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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

1983

2010

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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