DBMS > FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.harperdb.io

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

HarperDB

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2017

2009

2010

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1, August 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

range based

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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