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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	45.57
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

InterSystems

Initial release

1983

2018

Current release

19, May 2020

2020.2, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

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

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

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