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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.postgres-xl.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release198319842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.4.1.1, 202110 R1, October 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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