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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. NuoDB vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1983

2013

2015

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

tunable commit protocol

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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