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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guidesspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19832015201220141987
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V17.1.1, June 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infousing Azure authenticationnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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