DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Primary database model

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Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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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