DBMS > FileMaker vs. GreptimeDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GreptimeDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#368	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

greptime.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Greptime Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

1983

2022

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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