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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. HBase

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.gridgain.com

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

1983

2010

2007

2008

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

via plugins

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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