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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

Cesbit

Transaction Software GmbH

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1983

2010

2017

1987

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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