DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Initial release

1983

1991

1989

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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