DBMS > Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#307	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.78
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#208	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rdf4j.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

1983

2017

2004

2009

Current release

15585

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

optional

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

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