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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
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Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

hsqldb.org

www.splunk.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1983

2001

2003

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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