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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. Transbase

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Name

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

2021

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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