DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Percona

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1983

2017

2015

2010

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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