DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. eXtremeDB vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. eXtremeDB vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.mcobject.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

McObject

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2001

1983

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

8.2, 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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.

support of XML interfaces available

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

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

PHP

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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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