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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1983

1994

2015

2001

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Docker
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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

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

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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