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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. OceanBase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. OceanBase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseen.oceanbase.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9en.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release19832010199120102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.74.3.0, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FileMakerGoogle BigQueryjBASEOceanBasePostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsOceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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