DBMS > FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB vs. Tigris vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB vs. Tigris vs. Warp 10

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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

TiDB 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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

1983

2014

2016

2022

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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