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DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCNRSSpotifyMemgraph LtdMicrosoft
Initial release19832013201420171992
Current release19.4.1, November 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPHPJava.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on H2yesMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissionsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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FileMakerH2GISHeroicMemgraphMicrosoft Access
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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