DBMS > FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Time Series DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

manticoresearch.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Manticore Software

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

2017

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0, February 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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