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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. WakandaDB

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

origodb.com

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

origodb.com/docs

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1983

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes

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