DBMS > FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

manticoresearch.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Manticore Software

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Initial release

1983

2017

1984

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0, February 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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