DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score42.78
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.47
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score16.99
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.56
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20121983201320031984
Current release1.0.7180, July 202419.4.1, November 20212.7.6, April 20241.6.29, June 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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 formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
PHP.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnonoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and groups
More information provided by the system vendor
DatomicFileMakerInfluxDBMemcachedOpenEdge
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
News

LLM Monitoring and Observability
4 November 2024

System Tables Part 2: How We Made It Faster
31 October 2024

System Tables Part 1: Introduction and Best Practices
29 October 2024

MaaS: How to Store and Analyze Real-Time Stock Trading Data Using Next.js and InfluxDB
25 October 2024

MaaS: How to Monitor Node.js App Performance with PM2 & InfluxDB
23 October 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
DatomicFileMakerInfluxDBMemcachedOpenEdge
DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Redis extends the lead in the DB-Engines key-value store ranking
3 February 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
3 October 2012, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank
16 August 2021, InfoQ.com

Nubank acquires US company; PayPal studies cryptocurrencies
24 July 2020, iupana.com

Zoona Case Study
16 December 2017, AWS Blog

Fintech Powerhouse Nubank Buys U.S. Software Firm Cognitect
23 July 2020, Bloomberg

These are the top 25 people who will have the most influence in tech this year, according to a survey of over
15 April 2020, Business Insider India

provided by Google News

Problemista - Features
1 March 2024, Reverse Shot

Tilda Swinton on 'Problemista' Fan Horror Stories About Her Character
1 March 2024, IndieWire

Claris launches the last-ever annual FileMaker Pro release
20 May 2020, AppleInsider

An Apple subsidiary once led by legendary Silicon Valley 'coach' Bill Campbell is getting a complete rebrand
6 August 2019, CNBC

Filemaker 30, version 14
12 May 2015, Six Colors

provided by Google News

Simplify Industrial IoT: Use InfluxDB edge replication for centralized time series analytics with Amazon Timestream
3 September 2024, AWS Blog

InfluxData avoids ’AI magic beans’ in InfluxDB time series database update for enterprises
4 September 2024, VentureBeat

InfluxData makes performance, storage improvements to InfluxDB 3.0
4 September 2024, InfoWorld

InfluxData Enhances InfluxDB 3.0 with Performance Upgrades and Self-Managed Option
5 September 2024, Datanami

InfluxData's Latest Updates Optimize Time Series Data for Better Performance, Scale and Management
19 September 2024, Integration Developers

provided by Google News

Using memcached with Python
22 October 2024, Packt Hub

Cache vs. Database: Has Performance Converged?
6 November 2024, The New Stack

Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS-Compatible Cache – Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore
12 January 2024, AWS Blog

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance
7 August 2024, Phoronix

Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
11 October 2024, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

What's New in OpenEdge 12.8
15 April 2024, release.nl

4 sources of latency and how to avoid them
1 November 2017, InfoWorld

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here