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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	46.40
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	6.70
Rank	#57	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#285	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

quasardb.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

doc.quasardb.net

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

quasardb

Initial release

1983

2017

2009

Current release

19, May 2020

3.1, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

High-performance , high-speed, fully integrated timeseries database Seamlessly combines...
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Competitive advantages

High performance in a cost-effective small package Real-time results for even large...
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Typical application scenarios

Tick database Predictive maintenance Pre-deal checks Large scale monitoring
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Key customers

Large EU investment banks US based hedge funds Orolia Tellmeplus
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Market metrics

Has been running in very demanding production environments since 2013 Rapid adoption...
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Licensing and pricing models

Community edition limited to 2 nodes and 16 GiB of storage per node available for...
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