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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storemilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCCRi and othersIBMSTS Soft SC
Initial release19832014201720192011
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.0.5, February 20242.02.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14depending on storage layerActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
FileMakerGeoMesaIBM Db2 Event StoreMilvusSTSdb
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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