DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. NCache

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Alachisoft

Initial release

1983

1989

1994

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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