DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Baidu

SAP

Initial release

1983

2017

2018

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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