DBMS > FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.splunk.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

1983

1991

1993

2003

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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