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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	36.48
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.71
Rank	#129	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1983

1994

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

none

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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