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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequasar.aiswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftquasardbSimer Plaha
Initial release1983201020092018
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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 formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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