DBMS > FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Percona

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1983

1994

1980

2015

1994

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

23c, September 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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