DBMS > FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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