DBMS > FileMaker vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.sqlite.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Mireo

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

1983

2020

2000

2022

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

yes

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

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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