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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.monetdb.org

www.openpie.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MonetDB BV

OpenPie

Transwarp

Initial release

1983

2004

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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