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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1983

1984

2017

2014

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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