DBMS > FileMaker vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Yandex

Initial release

1983

2010

2014

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

Access Control Lists

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