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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

1983

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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

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