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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 vs. SiteWhere vs. VoltDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleIBMSiteWhereVoltDB Inc.
Initial release198320171983 infohost version20102010
Current release19.4.1, November 202112.1, October 201611.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP RESTJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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