DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chris Davis

Microsoft

Oushu

Initial release

1983

2006

1989

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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