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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Ingres vs. SingleStore

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBWell established RDBMSMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyActian CorporationSingleStore Inc.
Initial release1983201420011974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.7.2, June 202311.2, May 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++, Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnoneIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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FileMakerHeroicHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBIngresSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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