DBMS > Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Altibase

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1999

1983

2018

2021

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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