DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

1983

2014

2021

1992

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON 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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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