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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Kingbase vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

1983

1999

2003

1989

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2021

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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