DBMS > FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1983

1984

2013

1994

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Interbase Change Views

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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