DBMS > FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

1983

1984

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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