DBMS > FileMaker vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. SurrealDB

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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

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MonetDB BV

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1983

2004

2010

2013

2022

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

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++, Go

Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

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

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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