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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

RisingWave Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1983

2022

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2, September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

via file-system locks

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

Users and Roles

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