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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	41.50
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#145	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.24
Rank	#80	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Initial release

1983

1991

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.7

24.3, October 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

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

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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