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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. FileMaker vs. Postgres-XL 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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.postgres-xl.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

1983

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

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

19.4.1, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

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

MVCC

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 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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