DBMS > FileMaker vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.pinecone.io

www.snowflake.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1983

2019

2014

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
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

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Access Control Lists

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