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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenMLDB vs. PouchDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopenmldb.aipouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoft4 Paradigm Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release1983199220202012
Current release19.4.1, November 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192024-2 February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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