DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

1983

2010

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

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

yes

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

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