DBMS > Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

1983

2010

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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