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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime 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
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release1983201220102017
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined 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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding 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 14yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable 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 integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnoACID
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 servicesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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