DBMS > FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tkrzw

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1983

2021

2009

1993

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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