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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosoft 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.)A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMachbaseMicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release1983201319922004
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V8.0, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factornonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple password-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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