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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. Trafodion vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sequoiadb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

trafodion.apache.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1983

2013

2020

2014

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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