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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RavenDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score829.80
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverobjectbox.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iodocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedPerconaHibernating Rhinos
Initial release19831989201720152010
Current release19.4.1, November 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.10-2.10, November 20175.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIproprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoJavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editiononline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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