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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Transbase

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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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

realm.io

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

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

realm.io/docs

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

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

2014

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

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

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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