DBMS > FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1983

2013

1984

2010

1998

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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