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DBMS > Cubrid vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBCirconus LLC.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20081983201320172020
Current release11.0, January 202119.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 2020V0.10.20, January 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono

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