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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. Milvus vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.High performance Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerkx.commilvus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcode.kx.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release19832000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201920102017
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.6, May 20182.3.4, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC++, GoJavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (q)nonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesrights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FileMakerKdbMilvusSiteWhereTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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