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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. SQLite 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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

machbase.com

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

machbase.com/dbms

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Machbase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1983

2013

2000

1999

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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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