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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Transbase vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	42.86
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Transaction Software GmbH

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1983

1987

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

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

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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