DBMS > FileMaker vs. MariaDB vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MariaDB vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

2014

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

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