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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FileMaker vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#258	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	52.27
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#173	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	85.33
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.claris.com/filemaker

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Alibaba

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1983

2005

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Atomic single-row operations

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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