DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

kx.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

code.kx.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chris Davis

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

2006

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.6, May 2018

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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