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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 vs. Redis vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2

redis.com
redis.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

host version

2009

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

12.1, October 2016

7.2.4, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Windows

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

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

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