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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Teradata

Initial release

1983

2001

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

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

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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