DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

SAP

SQream Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1983

1989

2010

2017

2022

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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