DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

basex.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.basex.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2007

1983

2015

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

10.7, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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