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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MySQL vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mysql.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

Initial release

1983

1995

2014

2007

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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