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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

1983

2008

1998

Current release

15585

19.4.1, November 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes, details here

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

PHP

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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