DBMS > FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2013

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

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

JSON types

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

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