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DBMS > FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SiteWhereTimescale
Initial release1983198420102017
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.9.10.12, February 20242.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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