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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TiDB vs. Tigris

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
pingcap.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSnowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataPingCAP, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release19832014201920162022
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.0, August 20228.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGo, Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoringnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
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 concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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FileMakerSnowflakeTDengineTiDBTigris
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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