DBMS > FileMaker vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	52.27
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

www.mireo.hr/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

1983

1992

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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