DBMS > FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

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	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Embarcadero

SAP

Initial release

1983

1984

2010

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a 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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

Role-based access control

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