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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sqlite.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleMicrosoftDwayne Richard HippVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19832011199220002011
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.23, February 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noBased on Windows Authentication

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