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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlquasar.aisiridb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)quasardbCesbitTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19831984200920171987
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.4.1.1, 20213.14.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMSBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric datayes
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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