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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Real-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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2017

1983

2015

2014

2015

Current release

2022, May 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL queries

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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