DBMS > FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.06
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	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

1983

2014

2003

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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 rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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