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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. StarRocks vs. Transbase

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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

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

Forked from Apache Doris

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.starrocks.io

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

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

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

1992

2020

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

17, July 2015

2.5.3, March 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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