DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	42.78
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	39.10
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#227	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/hana

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Percona

SAP

Vaticle

Initial release

1983

2014

2015

2010

2016

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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