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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero vs. Vitess

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakersphinxsearch.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberovitess.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSphinx Technologies Inc.TmaxSoftThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1983200120032013
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.5.1, February 20236, April 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and AssemblerGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)yes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infoplanned for next versionyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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