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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

manticoresearch.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Manticore Software

Hughes Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1983

2017

1994

2008

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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