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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerIBMRobert Friberg et alAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1983200520172009 infounder the name LiveDB2008
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20232.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 formatnonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno

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