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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Redis vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

redis.com
redis.io

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

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

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

1983

2013

1992

2009

2022

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.2.4, January 2024

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

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

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

simple password-based access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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

Users and Roles

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