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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

splicemachine.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Splice Machine

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

2014

2020

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1, March 2021

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark 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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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