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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

FileMaker 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 values

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

1983

2011

2010

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.23, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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