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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerorigodb.comrealm.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerorigodb.com/­docsrealm.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SiteWhere
Initial release198320192009 infounder the name LiveDB20142010
Current release19.4.1, November 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 formatyesno infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoDomain Eventsyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRole based authorizationyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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