DBMS > FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

galaxybase.com

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Initial release

1983

2017

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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