DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

1983

2008

1984

1989

2007

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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