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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. FileMaker vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

McObject

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Mireo

Initial release

2001

1983

2020

Current release

8.2, 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

PHP

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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