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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	42.86
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#383	Overall
	#18	Vector DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

1983

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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