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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Spatial extension of H2

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2gis.org

www.hawkular.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CNRS

Community supported by Red Hat

Embarcadero

Initial release

1983

2013

2014

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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