DBMS > FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
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Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Embarcadero

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1983

1984

2013

2014

2008

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

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