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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. searchxml vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.searchxml.net/category/products

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Splice Machine

Initial release

1983

2014

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

on the application server

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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