DBMS > FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

greenplum.org

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

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.greenplum.org

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1983

2005

1989

2011

2008

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

24.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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