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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

1983

2011

2010

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

24.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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