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DBMS > FileMaker vs. LeanXcale vs. QuestDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LeanXcale vs. QuestDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.leanxcale.comquestdb.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleLeanXcaleQuestDB Technology IncTempoIQ
Initial release1983201520142012
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
Java
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple authentication-based access control
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FileMakerLeanXcaleQuestDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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