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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1983

1994

2001

2011

2016

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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