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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.marklogic.com

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.marklogic.com

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1983

2001

1989

1999

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.0, December 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.8.0, 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

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

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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