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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk vs. YugabyteDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeAnalytics Platform for Big DataHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.singlestore.comwww.splunk.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.singlestore.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSingleStore Inc.Splunk Inc.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release1983201320032017
Current release19.4.1, November 20218.5, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilitiesYugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageC++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesPHPBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infohash partitioningShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FileMakerSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSplunkYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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