DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

FileMaker 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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2005

2017

1995

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple password-based access control

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