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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

machbase.com

manticoresearch.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

machbase.com/dbms

manual.manticoresearch.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Machbase

Manticore Software

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1983

2013

2017

1999

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2023

6.0, February 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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 index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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