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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	48.59
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.69
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

1983

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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