DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#144	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.datomic.com

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2000

1983

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.0.7075, December 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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

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