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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20121983201720042020
Current release1.20.3, January 202319.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++PHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono

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