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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release198320102012
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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