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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. TimesTen vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#135	Overall
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Score	4.54
Rank	#86	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-u2

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-u2/documentation

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Rocket Software

Initial release

1983

1998

1985

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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