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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1983

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

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Recent citations in the news

Claris’s Plans for FileMaker Bode Well for Individual Users
23 August 2022, tidbits.com

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6 August 2019, CNBC

Claris FileMaker Pro 19 review
2 March 2022, TechRadar

Claris launches the last-ever annual FileMaker Pro release
20 May 2020, AppleInsider

Apple subsidiary FileMaker returns to its original name from the ’80s
6 August 2019, The Verge

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