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DBMS > Derby vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.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 simplicityA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.Alex Kashirin
Initial release19971983201720202017
Current release10.17.1.0, November 202319.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoRole-based access control

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