DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Percona

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1983

2010

2015

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

restricted

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

yes, limited

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

via In-Memory Engine

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)

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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