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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release198320152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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