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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

SQream Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1983

2010

2017

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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