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DBMS > FileMaker vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release1983201020012020
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.5.1, February 20232.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTProprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesPHPC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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