DBMS > FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1983

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

1987

2008

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

16.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

.Net

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

depending on model

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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