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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. mSQL vs. Splice Machine

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Hughes Technologies

Splice Machine

Initial release

1983

2005

1994

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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)

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

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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