DBMS > FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1983

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

Role based authorization

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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