DBMS > FileMaker vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Kinetica

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

2012

1984

2013

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1, August 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple password-based access control

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

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