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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

OpenPie

Initial release

1983

2014

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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 password-based access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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