DBMS > EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

1983

2014

2010

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

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