DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. FileMaker vs. NuoDB vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. FileMaker vs. NuoDB vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

1983

2013

2015

2014

Current release

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

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java, SQL

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

tunable commit protocol

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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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