DBMS > FileMaker vs. Raima Database Manager vs. ScyllaDB vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Raima Database Manager vs. ScyllaDB vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

raima.com

www.scylladb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.raima.com

docs.scylladb.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Raima Inc.

ScyllaDB

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

1984

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

15, June 2021

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

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

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

yes, Lua

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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News

Raima Unveils RaimaDB 16.0: Elevating Database Performance and User Experience
29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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