DBMS > Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

1983

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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 rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

rights management via user accounts

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

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