DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Tibero

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1983

2005

2014

2003

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

planned for next version

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 can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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