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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release19832009201020141992
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.8.11, March 201617, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 formatnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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