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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerquasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of Applequasardbinformationpartners gmbhTeradata
Initial release1983200920152005
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.14.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 formatnoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoon the application serverR packages
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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