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

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.81
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#383  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakeropennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenNMS GroupSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release198320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release19.4.1, November 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCACID
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 servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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