DBMS > FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

1983

2013

1992

2011

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

23.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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