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DBMS > FileMaker vs. OpenEdge vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OpenEdge vs. Solr

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Application development environment with integrated database management systemA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score54.18
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score3.86
Rank#98  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score44.20
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.progress.com/­openedgesolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperFileMaker infoa subsidiary of AppleProgress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release198319842006
Current release19.4.1, November 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20209.4.0, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infoclose to SQL 92Solr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava plugins
Triggersyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers and groupsyes

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