DBMS > FileMaker vs. ObjectBox vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. ObjectBox vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.27
Rank	#67	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

objectbox.io

www.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ObjectBox Limited

ScyllaDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1983

2017

2015

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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