DBMS > FileMaker vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Yandex

Initial release

1983

1995

2017

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Ubuntu

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native 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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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

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

yes

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