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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

boilerbay.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Boiler Bay Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2002

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

simple password-based access control

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