DBMS > FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

kx.com

www.snowflake.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

code.kx.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1983

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2014

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.6, May 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (q)

yes, limited

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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