DBMS > CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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

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

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#58	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.snowflake.com

pingcap.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2015

1983

2014

2016

2009

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

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, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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