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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Milvus vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermilvus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresplicemachine.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSiteWhereSplice MachineTimescale
Initial release19832019201020142017
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 20243.1, March 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesnumerics, 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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoJavauser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FileMakerMilvusSiteWhereSplice MachineTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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