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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Google
Initial release1983201720152013
Current release19.4.1, November 2021Nov 20, November 20212.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and JavaGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data and Strings
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesPHPGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accounts
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FileMakerGalaxybaseGoogle Cloud BigtableInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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