DBMS > FileMaker vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Qdrant

Timescale

Initial release

1983

1999

1989

2021

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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