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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakeropennms.github.io/­newtswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenNMS GroupOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release19832014200920152014
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangErlang
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 formatnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangErlanguser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes, using Riak SecuritynoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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