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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	53.60
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	1.62
Rank	#170	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Hypertable Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

1983

2009

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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