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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

1983

2016

1989

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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