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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Infobright vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Percona

Initial release

1983

2005

2008

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.0.36-28, 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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