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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleinformationpartners gmbhSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20171983201020152014
Current release2022, May 202219.4.1, November 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindowshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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 formatnoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyes infovia pluginsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
PHP.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datamultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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