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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SAP IQ vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.starrocks.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP, formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

1994

2020

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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