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DBMS > Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SAP infoformerly SybaseMireo
Initial release20131983201219922020
Current release19.4.1, November 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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