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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. ITTIA vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ittia.com

swaydb.simer.au

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ITTIA L.L.C.

Simer Plaha

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1983

2007

2018

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.7

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Database file passwords

yes

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