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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MariaDB vs. Newts vs. ObjectBox vs. Solr

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score91.04
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
opennms.github.io/­newtsobjectbox.iosolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarygithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.objectbox.iosolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
OpenNMS GroupObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation
Initial release19832009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995201420172006
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.3.2, February 20249.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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 formatyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3nonoJava plugins
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage enginenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesyes
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Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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