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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SurrealDB

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Mireo

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1983

2013

2020

2022

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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