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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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	#158	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

realm.io

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

realm.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

1983

2014

2006

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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